Monday #12 Keystone pipeline #1

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rejecting-the-keystone-pipeline-is-an-act-of-insanity/2012/01/19/gIQAowG6AQ_story.html
In this article, Robert J. Samuelson claimed that rejecting the plan for the pipeline hurts the country. For one thing, the environmental protection that was gained by rejecting the pipeline would be minimal, as it wouldn't stop Canada searching for more oil. It also hurts the relationship between the U.S. and Canada, because both countries could be helped by this. The pipeline also would have created a large amount of jobs for people in the U.S., and could have preserved other jobs in refining oil, which is something the U.S. needs. Finally, it could possibly give the U.S. a possibility to export some oil products, which would also help the economy. Samuelson also claimed that this was done more to try to help Obama get reelected than in the countries support. If these are true, it affects my life because the rejection of this plan may have hurt the economy even more, which is something everyone is living under.